: How to display "Not Found" instead of automatic redirecting? how to redirect to 404 in .htaccess file ? Example www.domain.com/ja/any_post or www.domain.com/ja/all_posts www.domain.com/fr/any_post

@Martha676

The simplest method would be:

# Redirect to HTTP 404 File/Page Not Found
Redirect 404 "/ja/any_posts"
Redirect 404 "/ja/all_posts"
Redirect 404 "/fr/any_posts"
Redirect 404 "/fr/all_posts"


Though you could also use:

# Redirect to HTTP 404 File/Page Not Found
RewriteRule ^ja/any_posts$ - [R=404,L]
RewriteRule ^ja/all_posts$ - [R=404,L]
RewriteRule ^fr/any_posts$ - [R=404,L]
RewriteRule ^fr/all_posts$ - [R=404,L]


Or this can be written more efficiently as:

RewriteRule ^(fr|ja)/(all|any)_posts$ - [R=404,L]


Or if you meant to redirect every page in those subfolders then:

RewriteRule ^(fr|ja)/(.*?)$ - [R=404,L]


Edited following comments:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(fr|ja)/(.*?)$ - [R=404,L]
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

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@YK1175434

Something along these lines might do what you want. This will redirect the user to the 'main' version of the page, and add a 404 header in the process, removing the old link:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(ja|fr)/
RewriteRule ^(ja|fr)/(.*?) / [L, R=404]

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